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Hello, everybody, and welcome to a history hour, a dedicated hour periodically, to the most important subject if you want to understand why we are where we are.

How could you not want to know what happened before? We, you know, we didn't enter the world as a newborn

world. We entered the middle of a soap opera and we need to know what happened beforehand.

So that's why I have a history hour.

I've gotten very positive feedback from you, my listeners, and that's been very encouraging.

What I do is try to feature new books, major new books of history.

And by sheer coincidence, and I'm very open with my listeners, as my guest will appreciate,

and my listeners know this, I tell them exactly even what goes in to the sausage-making,

as they would say, in a restaurant in the show.

I debated what I do within a few months of one another two books on

the same, largely the same issue, but they're both so good and the issue was so large that I said,

of course I would. I said to myself, and myself responded very fine.

And so the subject is up there, in my opinion,

with one of those great unanswerable questions of why did God invent the mosquito,

and that is, how did World War I begin?

World War II's origins are so simple,

and World War I's are so complex.

Why is it important?

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